 The driver was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. Tropical storm Beryl is in the Atlantic heading towards Barbados. Forecasters say it could strengthen into a dangerous major hurricane. A New York man awarded nearly $2 million after part of his thumb was chopped off by a self-closing door on his luxury car. Fox's Gary Baumgarten. 68-year-old Godwin Boateng, a Valley Stream New York software engineer, lost part of a thumb.